By Goh Chin Lian, Senior Political Correspondent & Jeremy Au Yong, Political Correspondent

IT IS a year since Mas Selamat Kastari escaped from custody, but Ms J. G. still does a double-take whenever she walks past a poster of the terrorist leader.

The communications lecturer, who asked to be identified only by her initials, was among those who made a police report after seeing someone resembling the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader on the day he escaped from Whitley Road Detention Centre.

She reported that she saw a man at the junction of Thomson Road and Mount Pleasant Road at 5pm on Feb 27 last year.

Still on the run, say regional security officials

By Shefali Rekhi

WHEN he was on the run, Mas Selamat Kastari could not resist getting in touch with his old networks. This weakness led to his arrest twice previously, a senior Indonesian police official told The Straits Times.

The official, who was involved in Jemaah Islamiah (JI) investigations and the hunt for the fugitive terrorist in his country, believes that the JI leader is not dead but on the run.

'So far, we have no information that he has got in touch with the known elements of the network after his escape,' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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